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Edith's Streets

This blog records notes about London (and Greater London) streets - what the buildings are, what the background is. These pages have been compiled over many years and from many sources - its not intended to copy from other people's work.Each post represents a square on the Ordnance Survey grid -and the vast majority of information is culled from map based source material - Ordnance Survey, A/Z, etc.

On some inner city squares only a quarter of each square is done because of the volume of material involved

Please add your comments and corrections - I am sure there are lots of mistakes - and my idea is to build up a correct record interactively

Red- it is (hopefully) there nowBlue - its interesting but its goneNo colour, same as the text - don't know. needs to be verified

The
old course of the New River crosses slightly north of the golf club car park. There is said to be a bridge which carries the road over it.South
Lodge to Whitewebbs Estate.A house
painted pink confection.This is a 19th
cottage orne with bargeboards, a patterned roof and battlemented chimneys.

Whitewebbs
Golf Course and Clubhouse.The golf
course was built by Hawtree and J.H.Taylor Ltd, and opened in 1932

Birkbeck
Road

The
Birkbeck Freehold Land Society bought some land from the Connop family and
before 1887 laid out ten streets. This was called New Enfield but remained under
occupied initially.

Brigadier
Hill

The
road follows the boundary of Enfield Chase. This may have been named after a Brigadier
Franks who lived locally in 1772

30A St Faith's Cottage. 18th house with 19th
shop front

Brigadier Free Church – evangelical church
which is the name of what is also Brigadier Hall
youth centre.

36
part of the Brigadier Youth Centre; it has been decorated with mosaic.

Brodie
Road

Laid
out 1896

Browning
Road

Formerly known as Cocker Lane this name was
used in the late 18th. The name Browning Road derives from a Richard
Browning who lived on Brigadier Hill and originally only applied to the length
south of Phipps Hatch Lane.

Cedar Park Nursery. In what is now called
Hymus House which was the rectory to St. Luke's built 1900 by James Brooks.

Church of St Luke the Evangelist and its parish room. Built 1899
by James Brooks in red brick with a tower and spire. It had previously been in an iron mission room.Brigadier Hill House previously occupied the
site. - This was an 18th house, since demolished, but which stood on
the site of the church. Browning Road Estate now covers the area of the
grounds.

Burlington
Road

Laid
out 1896

Clay
Hill

This road name was in use in the 16th. It is probably the
name of a medieval resident. ‘Clayhyil’ as an old name may seem self-explanatory
– but the soil here is not clay! So it is thought to be associated with William
atte Cleye in 1274.In the 16th
a stretch of it was called Bridge Street – referring to the crossing of the
Turkey Brook.

Telephone Kiosk K6. This is near the junction with Browning
Road.

Claysmore.The name is that of an earlier name for the area. This was an estate with a housewhich before 1847 was owned by Edward Harman and then the home if James Bosanquet who financed the building of St. John's church. In 1896 it became a school founded by Alexander Devine which moved elsewhere in 1902. Devine organised the school as a reformed public school, and extensions were built in the grounds. The house burntdown in 1930.

Brayside
Farm – equestrian facilities. The farm is on the site of Claysmore House.

Bramley
House.Built in 1750
in brown brick. There are extensions on either side from the 19th
and 20th. The house was originally known as Great Pipers.It became a private mental home in 1913 and
in 1930 was taken over by Middlesex County Council, for handicapped females –
as a ‘Certified Institute’, and where they made rugs and socks for the
hospital at Shenley. In 1948 it joined the NHS as
part of the South Ockendon Hospital Management Committee.It closed in 1977. Since 1982, it has been Bramley
House Court, providing sheltered accommodation. There is a date plaque on the
main building '1881' and there is a turret on the roof which appears to contain
a wheel.

The Cottages - these may once have been lodge building for Bramley
House

Woodbury.This was built as Clay
Hill House for Joseph Toms of Derry and Toms.It lies in grounds with Victorian
planting.It is an Italianate house of
1860 in pale brick. Now a residential care home.

Clay Hill Lodge. 19th ornamental lodge now divided into two.

Kingswood
–equestrian facilities

Little
Pipers.This lies behind a high wall and
is a 19th casing on an older house.

The Firs,
elaborate 19th stucco house.

Rose and Crown.The oldest building in the area. It is said one of the landlords was
Dick Turpin’s grandfather and that they were a Huguenot family. The ghost of
the highwayman is around in the area too. It has a timber frame and brick front
plus later extensions. The pub name symbolises the union of York and Lancaster
in the marriage of Henry VI and Elizabeth of York. It is first noted in 1716.

Gloucester
Road,

Laid
out 1896

Hawthorn
Grove

Laid out 1876 by the Birkbeck Freehold Land Society

North
Enfield Recreation Ground. This had been Tucker’s Field used as a playing field
by a local football club since 1896.The
council took it over in 1907. It was later funded from the King George's Fields Foundation

Hilly Fields Park.

Enfield
Council bought Park Farm in 1909 and opened the park in 1911

Bandstand.
The Council built the bandstand in the early 1920s and it proved popular but began
eventually to fall out of fashion and the bandstand became derelict. Its
restoration was undertaken by a group of local people and it is now the site of
many events.

Morley
Hill

Laid
out by the Birkbeck Freehold Land Society Possibly named after John Morley (1838-1923), a leading
Liberal politician.

St
Luke’s Youth Club

Myrtle Grove

Laid out 1876 by the Birkbeck Freehold Land Society

New
River

An
old course of the New River runs through this square.The river was originally built on the 100 ft.
contour. In order to achieve this it made a three and half mile detour through Whitewebbs
- its return out of the loop which this area covers was to skirt Forty
Hill.In 1820 the loop was shortened
under William Chadwell Mylne and it was finally abandoned when Docwra built an
aqueduct over Maidens Brook. The stretch of the old course can still be followed,
although over the golf course it has partly been filled in.